Vocabulary from chapter 7 of the "Out of Many" AP United States History textbook
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| 1703805035 | valley forge | area of Pennsylvania where General George Washington's Continental troops were quartered from December 1777 to June 1778 | 0 | |
| 1703805036 | patriots | british colonists who favored independence from Britain | 1 | |
| 1703805037 | continental army | the regular or professional army authorized by the Second Continental Congress and commanded by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War | 2 | |
| 1703805038 | loyalists | british colonists who opposed independence from Britain | 3 | |
| 1703805039 | tories | a derisive term applied to Loyalists in America who supported the king and Parliament just before and during the American Revolution | 4 | |
| 1703805040 | united states constitution | the written document providing for a new central government of the United States | 5 | |
| 1703805041 | articles of confederation | written documents setting up the loose confederation of states that comprised the first national government of the United States | 6 | |
| 1703805042 | second continental congress | Convened in May 1775, the Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain. In an effort to reach a reconciliation, the Congress offered peace under the conditions that there be a cease-fire in Boston, that the Coercive Acts be repealed, and that negotiations begin immediately. King George III rejected the petition. | 7 | |
| 1703805043 | land ordinance of 1785 | act passed by Congress under the ARticles of Confederation that created the grid system of surveys by which all subsequent public land was made available for sale | 8 | |
| 1703805044 | northwest ordinance of 1787 | legislation that prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as co-equal states | 9 | |
| 1703805045 | bill of rights | a written summary of inalienable rights and liberties | 10 | |
| 1703805046 | bill for establishing religious freedom | a bill authored by Thomas Jefferson establishing religious freedom in Virginia | 11 | |
| 1703805047 | constitutional convention | convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787 and drafted the Constitution of the United States | 12 | |
| 1782185900 | Intolerable Acts | passed by Parliament in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Passed series of measures including shutting down Boston Harbor and the Quartering Act, which allowed British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings. This resulted in the colonists forming the First Continental Congress and drawing up a declaration of colonial rights. | 13 | |
| 1782185901 | Patrick Henry | (1736-1799) A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies. Famous for "Give me Liberty or Give me Death". | 14 | |
| 1782185902 | Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence | 15 | |
| 1782185903 | John Adams | (1735-1826) John Adams' unequivocal belief in the importance of the rule of law led him to defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre; his defense demonstrated to the world that the colonists were civilized and could therefore govern themselves | 16 | |
| 1782185904 | John Dickson | American politician and lawyer from Pennsylvania. Wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Was opposed to separation from Britain and worked very hard to maintain the possibly of reconciliation. Responsible for wording the Olive Branch Petition and sustained from voting on and signing the Declaration of Independence. Joined the Constitutional Convention and wrote supporting the Constitution. Was elected Governor of Pennsylvania. | 17 | |
| 1782185905 | John Jay | 1st chief justice of the supreme court; jays treaty (made the british give up there claim to the forts in the north, promised to reimburse they for the seized cargo); wrote the federalists papers | 18 | |
| 1782185906 | Joesph Galloway | ... | 19 | |
| 1782185907 | Suffolk Resolves | Agreed to by delegates from Suffolk county, Massachusetts, and approved by the First Continental Congress on October 8, 1774. Nullified the Coercive Acts, closed royal courts, ordered taxes to be paid to colonial governments instead of the royal government, and prepared local militias.Declared that the colonies need not obey the 1773 Coercive Acts, since they infringed upon basic liberties. | 20 | |
| 1782185908 | economic sanctions | ..., Boycotts, embargoes, and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies. | 21 | |
| 1782185909 | Declaration of Rights and Greivances | ..., ... | 22 | |
| 1782185910 | First Continental Congress | 1774. All colonies there except Georgia. All perspectives were represented. the goals of the meeting were to enumerate American grievances, to develop a strategy for addressing those grievances, and to formulate a colonial position on the proper relationship between the royal government and the colonial governments. The congress came up with a list of those laws the colonists wanted repealed and agreed to impose a boycott on British goods until their grievances were redressed. The delegates also agreed to form a Continental Association, with towns settling ip committees of observation to enforce the boycott; in time these committees became their towns' de facto governments. The congress formulated a limited set of parameters within which it considered Parliamentary interference in colonial affairs justified; all other spheres, the delegates agreed, should be left to the colonists themselves. | 23 | |
| 1782185911 | Olive Branch Petition | An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll | 24 | |
| 1782185912 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President of the United States, chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826); head of the Democratic Republicans; believed in strong state government/power; believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution. | 25 | |
| 1782185913 | Declaration of Independence | the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain | 26 | |
| 1782185914 | George Washington | 1732-1799 led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War and was the first President of the U.S, from 1789-1797. Because of his central role in the founding of the United States, he is often call the "Father of his Country." | 27 | |
| 1782185915 | Paul Revere | 1735-1818 American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming | 28 | |
| 1782185916 | William Dawes | American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799) | 29 | |
| 1782185917 | Lexington | ... | 30 | |
| 1782185918 | Concord | ... | 31 | |
| 1782185919 | Battle of Bunker Hill | First major battle of the Revolutions. It showed that the Americans could hold their own, but the British were also not easy to defeat. Ultimately, the Americans were forced to withdraw after running out of ammunition, and Bunker Hill was in British hands. However, the British suffered more deaths. | 32 | |
| 1782185920 | Battle of Saragtoga | 1775- that marked the greats up to that point for the american forces and led to the surrender of British general Borgoyne. | 33 | |
| 1782185921 | George Rogers Clark | Leader of a small Patriot force that captured British-controlled Fort Vincennes in the Ohio Valley in 1779., secured the Northwest Territory for America | 34 | |
| 1782185922 | Battle of Yorktown | Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781. | 35 | |
| 1782185923 | minutemen | Member of a militia during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in sixty seconds. (Patriots) | 36 | |
| 1782185924 | unicameral legisation | ... | 37 | |
| 1782185925 | absolute monarch | ..., A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power | 38 | |
| 1782185926 | Prohibitory Act | (1775) Declared the colonies in rebellion, and later forbade all trade and shipping between England and the Colonies | 39 | |
| 1782185927 | Treaty of Paris | Under this agreement, the British recognized the United States as an independent nation, the borders of the new nation extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and the southern border stopped at Florida, which was returned to Spain. The west of the Mississippi River also went to Spain. | 40 | |
| 1782185928 | Thomas Paine/ Common Sense | A British citizen, he wrote Common Sense, published on January 1, 1776, to encourage the colonies to seek independence. It spoke out against the unfair treatment of the colonies by the British government and was instrumental in turning public opinion in favor of the Revolution. | 41 | |
| 1782185929 | Continentals | Paper bills issued by the Continental Congress to finance the revolution; supposed to be exchanged for silver but the overprinting of bills made them basically worthless. | 42 | |
| 1782185930 | Abigal Adams | wife of John Adams at the 2nd Contintal Congress; tried to influence her husband John, to include women's rights in the Declaration | 43 | |
| 1782185931 | Deborah Sampson | At the age of 21, she dressed up as a man in order to fight in the American Revolution; is the first documented woman to impersonate a man to get into the army; was awarded an honorable discharge and pension; and proved that women could be of some use in the war. | 44 | |
| 1782185932 | Mary McCauley | Heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1932) | 45 | |
| 1782185933 | Shay's Rebellion | 1786- Led by Captain Daniel Shays, Revolutionary war veteran. An uprising that flared up in western Massachusetts. Impoverished backcountry farmers, many of them Revolutionary war veterans, were losing their farms through mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies. They demanded cheap paper money, lighter taxes, and a suspension of mortgage fore closures. Hundreds of angry agitators attempted to enforce these demands. Massachusetts authorities, supported by wealthy citizens, raised a small army under General Lincoln. | 46 |
